I’ll have to find a copy of the paper talked about here. Peter Lynds, a broadcasting school tutor, decided to write a paper on Quantum Mechanics with an idea that seems so obvious in retrospect. He purports that Einstein and Zeno were on the right track.
To simplify Lynds’ point: There can never be a solitary moment in time due to the infinitessimal reduction of time intervals, therefore a moving object can never have a precise location. Conversely, there is no precise moment of time a moving object will exist at a particular point.
Following this further, if precise moments of time and precise locations do not exist, neither can velocity. As you can imagine, his work has been highly controversial.
Owwwww….
Quantum mechanics hurts my brain.
I love the Tunnel Effect theory in Quantum Mechanics (I believe that is what it is called). It is derived from the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.If you bounce a tennis ball against a wall it should bounce back. However, since matter, on a subatomic level, theoretically exists dually in waves and particles, if you throw the ball enough times, it will eventually pass through the wall faster than the speed of light.This is a very abbreviated version of the theory, as I understand it. I accept corrections graciously.
This article briefly explain the Tunnel Effect. If tennis balls were photons, they could appear to travel through an object faster than light by taking on the properties of the adjoining particles.
Whoa, after that article I need some possible beers.
Damn you, Quantum Physics!